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Yes, but it shows information about recent/current logins and requires access a file called wtmp (or something like that, off the top of my head), and that requires privileged access.
My usual use case where I mix it up is looking at a log file and and I just want to see the last few entries. So my brain ๐ง tells my fingers to type "last logfile", and when I get the permission message it tells my mouth to go, "Doh!".
yeah I looked it up
this will be handy